Tidying loose ends.. as best as i can

There are some little things covered in earlier blogs that im not sure I ever told you the ends of. (rather like the news in that way)

One being my glasses. It is world news now that I dropped them in a lake (details can be sought later for those who missed this) in Germany, on the first day of ISSC. I spent a week in lectures not being able to see a damn thing and relying on wonderful people to explain things, stop me from getting lost (specifically at night) and generally stop me from making a total fool of myself (they tried very hard, did a brilliant job considering the circumstances and I still think they are wonderful). So the rest of the story goes, I discovered glasses are not covered by travel insurance (I guess im not the first person to drop mine in a lake). But I did manage to procure some new ones, they are different, but cool in their own way.. and the most important thing is that I can see with them. I see this as a vital state of affairs.

Two, being the guide in Peru, details can be sought privately. (doenst that sound so pro.. maybe I should have stuck to law..lol) I have allsorts of advice relating to organised tours, guides (spec. ones where you have to get your own food.. and ones with ‘local’ guides..) but somehow it doesn’t seem appropriate to force opinions on everyone.

Three.. I should probably stop numbering them now cause it makes it sound like this blog is organised when it is most defiantly not. Oh, uni, that’s a good one. when I left aus it was going to be Law/arts. With two independent pieces of advice and persuasion from amazingly different sources (not, surprise surprise alex –simply saying someones writing is crap is NOT persuasion its just, well hollow really and I like to think untrue :P-) it has shifted back to Arts/Science in Queensland. Probably ill stick to this, the only foreseeable reason I can see to drop science is if I fail Maths, but we shall see.

What happening next? Always a slightly shifty question. Im currently spending two weeks exploring Britannia with my mother, Skye now (for many reasons), then going to Belgium (also for many reasons). Hopefully ill be staying in Belgium till I come home (with excursions to France and Denmark, all willing, a lot of my views on Paris changed after I got offered an apartment to borrow there.. and after people stopped referring to it with misty eyes and the idea of pure soppy romance.. lol) this is if I don’t freeze to death first or get fired again (although that’s probably less likely over here). This all puts me back to getting home after Christmas and my Birthday (lord knows where ill go for those). And getting summer again, and a good coffee.. and French Toast at the Boyz. (a café near where I live)

Hmm.. I can’t think of anything else, but then again they aren’t loose ends for me.. I lived them out.. and as such they got tied up in a little neat bow, well poetically speaking they did.

Ah.. when I was in Peru I thought id lost my Mp3 player. (panic.. that would have been bad with a capital B) I didn’t, it had been somehow put under the sheets etc. when my bed was made and as such only found when I sat on it. That probably wasn’t dire for you but it was looking bad for me. It would have been a 40hr trip to Norway sans Music, that I believe would have been bad, and left me arriving in Norway in an even worse mood than I did as was. Tired, stressed, delayed etc. I was tired enough from the whole Peru trip, and it took some bouncing back to get into anything resembling normal Amelia.

Oh, I have my laptop again. This is good.. I have limited wireless because the English don’t seem to have got round to installing it everywhere yet (and they have the gall to ask us if we even have electricity yet.. ha! Lol). My lap top also seems to have developed a habit of randomly crashing, running slowly then not and turning all my WMP files into some other music programmes files. I do not know why, but I think its categorised into ‘one of those things’, and perfectly normal for technology.

So.. what have I achieved? I managed to get a haircut, work out various postal systems (if anyone wants a post card please just email me with your address.. even if you’ve already had one.. just I figure they should go to people who want them.. not just randoms I managed to collect addresses off.. lol) even the bus systems in some places. Also the Tube (T, Underground) etc.a version of which ive been on in every country visited.. which has added to the adventure (spec as until this year they had always been a theoretical concept, we don’t really have undergrounds.. the city loop doesn’t really count..).

Oh, I managed to pick up some Portuguese, I was quite proud of that. But currently I am trying to work on my French (being brushed up from watching Madeline –a cartoon- when I was a kid) not doing too bad so far.. well by my standards..

That’s all I can think of for now.

Ask questions as you all desire.